Nvidia Optimus Not Switching

Amd switchable graphics and nvidia optimus are both systems to help save battery power by automatically switching between a high performance discrete gpu and a lower power integrated gpu.

Nvidia optimus not switching. Some alienware systems have the option to switch between an integrated graphics card and a discrete card to save power by using the right card for the right application. Configuring nvidia optimus and amd switchable graphics for high performance on your alienware system. How to switch graphics card in the machines based on nvidia optimus technology. Active 7 years 1 month ago.

This means that it automatically chooses between the integrated intel graphics and the dedicated gpu. The older optimus controller with the latest nvidia video driver works fine with all of the benefit of the new display driver and it does not matter that you have older intel video driver as it will default to nvidia anyways with the higher performance need. Ask question asked 7 years 1 month ago. As this didn t work i downgraded the kernel nvidia driver and bbswitch i just picked the last versions that were released in 2019 because i m not very experienced with downgrading packages and now the switching works again even after suspending the system with optimus manager 1 3 1.

Your graphics card is an nvidia optimus card. The following instructions explain how to force a laptop to use discrete graphics for example whilst benchmarking. For example internet explorer will use the integrated graphics card as it does not require heavy video processing however if you open and run a game the discrete card will take over all the work.